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From: Alexander Wetzel <alexander@wetzel-home.de>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Wetzel <alexander@wetzel-home.de>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, pa@panix.com
Subject: [PATCH] rtl8180: Prevent using not initialized queues
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:52:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220422145228.7567-1-alexander@wetzel-home.de> (raw)

Using not existing queues can panic the kernel with rtl8180/rtl8185
cards. Ignore the skb priority for those cards, they only have one
tx queue.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: pa@panix.com
Tested-by: pa@panix.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Wetzel <alexander@wetzel-home.de>
---

Pierre Asselin (pa@panix.com) reported a kernel crash in the Gentoo forum:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1147832-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-25.html
He also confirmed that this patch fixes the issue.

In summary this happened:
After updating wpa_supplicant from 2.9 to 2.10 the kernel crashed with a
"divide error: 0000" when connecting to an AP.
Control port tx now tries to use IEEE80211_AC_VO for the priority, which
wpa_supplicants starts to use in 2.10.

Since only the rtl8187se part of the driver supports QoS, the priority
of the skb is set to IEEE80211_AC_BE (2) by mac80211 for rtl8180/rtl8185
cards.

rtl8180 is then unconditionally reading out the priority and finally crashes on
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c line 544 without this
patch:
	idx = (ring->idx + skb_queue_len(&ring->queue)) % ring->entries

"ring->entries" is zero for rtl8180/rtl8185 cards, tx_ring[2] never got
initialized.

 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c
index 2477e18c7cae..025619cd14e8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c
@@ -460,8 +460,10 @@ static void rtl8180_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *dev,
 	struct rtl8180_priv *priv = dev->priv;
 	struct rtl8180_tx_ring *ring;
 	struct rtl8180_tx_desc *entry;
+	unsigned int prio = 0;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	unsigned int idx, prio, hw_prio;
+	unsigned int idx, hw_prio;
+
 	dma_addr_t mapping;
 	u32 tx_flags;
 	u8 rc_flags;
@@ -470,7 +472,9 @@ static void rtl8180_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *dev,
 	/* do arithmetic and then convert to le16 */
 	u16 frame_duration = 0;
 
-	prio = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);
+	/* rtl8180/rtl8185 only has one useable tx queue */
+	if (dev->queues > IEEE80211_AC_BK)
+		prio = skb_get_queue_mapping(skb);
 	ring = &priv->tx_ring[prio];
 
 	mapping = dma_map_single(&priv->pdev->dev, skb->data, skb->len,
-- 
2.35.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-04-22 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-22 14:52 Alexander Wetzel [this message]
2022-04-23  6:21 ` [PATCH] rtl8180: Prevent using not initialized queues Kalle Valo
2022-04-23  8:00   ` Alexander Wetzel
2022-04-23  9:48     ` Kalle Valo
2022-04-27  5:02 ` rtl818x: " Kalle Valo

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